The Extent (or Survey) of the Graveships of Rastrick, Hipperholm and Sowerby, 1309

RASTRICK

 

Pages 13 - 15

 

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RICHARD son of MALYN holds half an acre and half a perch of land, paying there-out yearly 2½d. (same terms)

 

JOHN son of RICHARD holds ten acres and one perch of land, paying thereout yearly 3s 5½d. (same terms)

 

HANNE del CROSSE holds one acre and one perch, paying thereout yearly 5¼d. (same terms)

 

MARIONA daughter of EVE holds one acre and one perch of land, paying thereout yearly 5d. (same terms)

 

HENRY son of PETER holds six acres and half a perch of land, paying thereout yearly 2s d. (same terms)

 

JOHN son of RICHARD holds five acres and three perches of land, paying thereout yearly 23d. (same terms)

 

ADAM BITHEBROKE holds eight acres and three and a half perches of land, paying thereout yearly 2s 11½d. (same terms)

 

AVOTA daughter of THOMAS holds eight acres and three perches of land, paying there-out yearly 2s 11d. (same terms)

 

HENRY son of JOHN holds twenty acres of land, paying thereout yearly 6s 8d. (same terms)

 

JOHN del BOTHERODE holds ten acres and three perches of land, paying thereout yearly 3s 7½d. (same terms)

 

JOHANNA daughter of the CARPENTER holds three acres of land, paying thereout yearly 12d. (same terms)

 

MATILDA daughter of ATTE-OKES [sic] holds thirteen acres and one perch of land, paying there out yearly 4s 5d. (same terms)

 

ROGER del BRIGGEHOUSE holds one and a half acre of land, paying thereout yearly 6d. (same terms)

 

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ROGER the SOUNDE holds three acres of land, paying thereout yearly 12d. (same terms)

 

ROGER de SHEPELEY holds nine acres and three perches of land, paying thereout yearly 3s 3d. (same terms)

 

PETER de SOUTHCLIFFE holds four acres and half a perch of land, paying there-out yearly 16½d. (same terms)

 

ALEXANDER the MILNER holds two acres of land, paying thereout yearly 8d. (same terms)

 

HENRY de ELANDE holds three acres of land, paying thereout yearly 12d. (same terms)

 

BEATRIX de FEKESBY holds three acres of land, paying thereout yearly 12d. (same terms)

 

THOMAS del WODE holds two acres of land, paying thereout yearly 8d. (same terms)

 

ROBERT son of MATHEW holds three acres of land, paying thereout yearly 12d. (same terms)

 

HENRY STYVEN holds two acres of land, paying thereout yearly 8d. (same terms)

 

WILLIAM son of STEPHEN holds two acres of land, paying thereout yearly 8d. (same terms)

 

RICHARD son of THOMAS holds four and a half acres of land, paying thereout yearly 18d. (same terms)

 

MAGGE, the relict of HENRY holds three acres of land, paying thereout yearly 12d. (same terms)

 

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JOHN de LYNNELEY holds three and a half acres and a half a perch of land, paying thereout yearly 14½d. (same terms)

 

SIMON de SCHIPDENE holds one acre of land, paying thereout yearly 4d. (same terms)

 

THOMAS de LYGRTHTE(?) (Lygtrich) holds three perches paying thereout yearly 3d. (same terms)

 

Sum of the Rents of Assize for the year—£7 0s 0¼d. whereof at the feast of Purification 47s 9½d. Whitsuntide 46s 5¼d. and St. Michael 45s 9½d.

 

MILLS. There is there a certain Water Mill and it was let to farm in the time of the King when the Earl was under age and in the King's custody, for £10 13s 4d. and there-of the King had a moiety and the Earl another moiety, and it was let to farm in the following year at the first coming of the Earl into his lands for £13 6s 8d. viz, to MATHEW de TOTHILL and ALEXANDER de RAS­TRICK.

 

MEMORANDUM. That every tenant hold­ing lands in Stainland and Barkisland who has a plough, shall give to the Earl yearly for one ploughing 4d. and if he have half a plough he will give 2d. and if four neigh­bours have only one plough they will give to the Lord for ploughing 4d. in common.

 

Also it is to be known that every house in the same towns whence smoke issues shall give, by custom, for one day's harvesting id. yearly.

 

Also it is to be known that each tenant in Fekesby shall give for ploughing aforesaid, for each plough 4d. and every house there whence smoke issues shall give for reaping

 

 

Notes on Identification to the names in the Rental taken from the Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield as published in theYorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series.

 

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The following year a Court at Wakefield has the following :—" Thomas de Tothill, keeper of the goods of the Blessed Mary in the parish of Halifax, versus Thomas son of Modde and Henry son of Thomas, for debt."

 

MATHEW de TOTHILL. Jan. 13. 1307. Peter the Chaplain, gave to the Court 2s for help to recover 6s from Walter the Clerk of Dewsbury and Mathew de Tothill, his pledge. They are to be distrained for it. A later Court informs us that Mathew was dis­trained of two oxen.

 

WILLIAM de TOTHILL. A Juror in 1309.

 

JOHN del BOTHERODE. Mentioned in June, 1308, as paying 6d. for dry wood, also a Juror in 1309.

 

MATHEW del WODEHOUSE. A Juror in 1309.

 

ALCOCKE del WODEHOUSE. Fined 6d., Nov. 20th, 1307 for drawing blood of William Foune.

 

ALEXANDER del YOKES. A Juror, 1309.

 

RICHARD son of MALYN. Richard son of Malina appears in 1308 under Rastrick as paying 6d. for vert.

 

ADAM BITHEBROKE. Juror 1309. At Rastrick Tourn in 1398, the following entry occurs :

" Richard son of Roger del Feld stole an ox from Alexander de Rastrick, a pig from Beatrice de Tothill, and a heifer from Adam Bythebroke : to be arrested."

 

ROGER del BRIGGEHOUSE. There were two of the name, presumably father and son.

 

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BEATRIX de FEKESBY. In 1307 (Jan. 25th) a mention is found of Beatrice, daughter of Thomas de Fekesby, who gives 3s 4d. as relief on three acres of land in Fekesby, after the death of her father.

 

THOMAS del WODE. June 24th, 1308. John the Rede of Thornhill and John the Strengfelagh to be arrested, when found, for burglary at the house of Thomas del Wode of Fekesby, whereof they were indicted at the Tourn at Rastrick. They had taken goods to the value of forty shillings, as appears by a previous Court.

 

Jan. 25th, 1308. Thomas del Wode appears as one of the executors of Thomas de Fekesby in the recovery of a debt at a Court at Wakefield.

 

Robert son of Thomas del Wode, (Feb. 1308) came to Court and was attached to prosecute a suit against John Batty of Westbretton in respect of a horse, price 6s 8d. stolen from him by the said John. Thomas del Wode, the father, was one of the sureties.

 

HENRY STYVEN. Presumably the cul­prit who refused to pay the ploughing cus­tom in 1309.

 

SYMON de SCHIPDENE mentioned in 1297 and in 1298.

 

WILLIAM son of STEPHEN. June 1307. Ralph son of Richard Kerlinghowe drew blood from William son of Stephen de Fekesby; Fine 12d.

 

An interesting example of evasion of Manorial customs is to be found in the pro­ceedings at a Court held at Rastrick on Wednesday in Whitsun week of the year 1309, which also introduces us to many names which have appeared in the Rental.

 

  

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